Excerpt from George Bancroft

While Secretary of the Navy, he issued the order to take posses sion of California in the event, of a war between the United States and Mexico, and while acting as Secretary of War, during the temporary absence of Marcy, Bancroft issued the order to General Taylor to march into Texas.

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